Gerard Saulnier

University Official

Gerard B. Saulnier, a personnel director for the University of Hartford for 16 years, died Thursday at Hartford Hospital. He was 68.

Saulnier had worked for the university for 25 years. He was student employment director for seven years. He was a Waterbury native and was living in Vernon at the time of his death.

Before he joined the university, he had been personnel director at Combustion Engineering in Windsor, personnel manager at M.H. Rhodes Inc. in Avon, and a wage and salary analyst at Pratt & Whitney.

Saulnier was a World War II veteran, serving in the U.S. Army, and was a communicant of Sacred Heart Church in Vernon.

He was the husband of the late Annette Lemieux Saulnier.

He leaves two sons, Gregory Saulnier in Pennsylvania and Paul Saulnier in Wisconsin; a daughter, Denise Stuart in Maine; a sister, Genevieve Bodgen of Milford; and three grandchildren.

The funeral will be Monday at 9 a.m. from the Burke-Fortin Funeral Home, 76 Prospect St., Rockville, with a Mass of Christian burial at 10 a.m., Sacred Heart Church, Vernon. Calling hours are Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m.